A US appeals court has ruled that seed and crop protection company Corteva can continue to sell an agricultural weedkiller that environmentalists said was harmful to plants and wildlife, Reuters reported on 22 July.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has given Indonesia the go ahead to form a panel on its complaint against the European Union (EU)’s revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), the Jakarta Post reported on 3 August.

Plans by Indonesia to implement its 40% biodiesel blending (B40) programme by July 2021 are back on target, Reuters reported the country’s coordinating minister for economic affairs Airlangga Hartarto as saying on 30 July.

A study stating that coconut production poses a threat to biodiversity five times greater than palm oil has set off a heated debate on social media, Science reported on 17 July.

Global seed company Nuseed has agreed to supply French vegetable oils and biofuels producer Saipol with its carinata feedstock, Nuseed announced on 22 July.

German chemical giant Bayer has lost an appeal challenging the outcome of the first case to go to trial in the USA over the company’s Roundup weedkiller, France 24 reported on 21 July.

A labour shortage in Malaysia is causing a potential 25% loss of palm oil yield and is expected to worsen in the coming months, Reuters reported the Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) as saying on 20 July.

Biodiesel production in the EU has increased for another year, accounting for 34% of the 41M tonnes produced globally in 2018, according to Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) on 16 December.

The UK government is set to unveil a plan to tackle obesity as evidence grows showing its link to increased COVID-19 illness and death, the BBC reported on 27 July.

German chemical giant Bayer has launched a pilot programme in the USA and Brazil to pay farmers for capturing carbon in cropland soils, Reuters reported on 21 July.

French agro-industrial group Avril and Dutch science-based company Royal DSM are launching a joint venture to produce canola proteins, World Grain reported on 15 July.

Olive oil production in the European Union (EU) for the 2020/21 crop year is expected to reach a five-year high of 2.3M tonnes, Olive Oil Times reported from a short-term EU agri-food outlook report on 9 July.

Brazil soyabean exports are forecast to reach a record level of 84M tonnes in 2020/21, World Grain reported on 15 July from forecasts made by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).